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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/06/2024
BREAKING: Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Probe Finds Thomas flew to Montana & elsewhere on the billionaire’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed the flights to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose investigation was sparked by ProPublica reporting
propublica.org
Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
The Supreme Court justice flew to Montana and other destinations on the billionaire GOP donor’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigatio...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Who would have thought that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice who ruled that businesses could discriminate against LGBTQ people would be a homophobe? (Everyone)
rollingstone.com
Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Media
Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a new recording bemoans having to “look across the lagoon at the Pride flag.”
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Free Palestine pasteups seen in Mitte, Berlin
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore
wsav.com
AP African American studies course to be dropped in SC public schools
The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
legalizing sports betting was such a profound societal failure.
usatoday.com
Getting death threats from aggrieved gamblers, MLB players starting to fear for their safety
Major leaguers are getting concerned for their safety from gamblers since MLB and gambling companies have joined forces.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
They’re not “gifts.” They’re bribes. Clarence Thomas took $4 million in bribes from billionaires. Everyone understands this, and yet he still holds a lifetime position as one of the most powerful people in our country. Unrig the Supreme Court.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged in a financial disclosure that he took two luxury trips paid for by a GOP donor
nytimes.com
Clarence Thomas, in Financial Disclosure, Acknowledges 2019 Trips Paid by Harlan Crow
The justice amended an earlier filing to include vacations to Bali and an exclusive California club paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
47 Senate Republicans refused to protect a person’s right to birth control, in case you were wondering what the “moderate Republican” position on birth control is.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Rent prices Gas prices Food prices Prescription prices Utility prices When prices go up and profit margins stay flat — that’s inflation. When prices go up, and profits hit record highs — that’s greedy CEOs price gouging us. Never accept exploitation.
popular.info
Feds raid corporate landlord, escalating nationwide criminal probe of rent increases
Over the last four years, rents have skyrocketed by an average of over 30% nationwide and are a major factor in the overall inflation rate. There are a variety of factors behind the increases, includi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
From my colleague Molly Redden: “Weeks before she struck down the federal mask mandate in spring 2022, U.S. District Judge Mizelle attended an all-expenses-paid retreat where a conservative group gave her a crash course in the niche legal theory propping up her opinion.”
huffpost.com
Trump Judges Went On A Luxury Trip — And It Doomed A Major Biden Policy
The April 2022 ruling included an unusual legal theory — and new disclosures seen by HuffPost shed some light.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/06/2024
$90 million dollars for CopCity while Atlanta is literally under a city-wide boil water advisory due to a water system that has been known to be failing and in need of complete overhaul for at Least 30 years.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
The @nytimes.com has really done it this time. Publishing a piece on the lab leak theory is just terrible editorial judgment. Did they talk to ANY of their science reporters? Talk to anyone who works on viral emergence & origins? This is clickbait for the Fauci hearings this week. It is disgusting.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Trump doesn’t reward hard work. He rewards loyalty. 9 witnesses in the cases against Donald Trump received large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and shares and cash from his media company. www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Remember when they blamed inflation on a one-time $1200 Covid stimulus check? “the companies behind the country’s 10 largest grocery and restaurant brands have together returned or pledged to return more than $77 billion to shareholders”
levernews.com
Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies
While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
Here's Rupert Murdoch getting his usual fawning society-page coverage describing him as an "incorrigible romantic," rather than as "One of the most evil men alive, responsible for the corrosion of democracies worldwide and the spread of medical misinformation that has killed millions."
ca.style.yahoo.com
Rupert Murdoch marries fifth wife in California vineyard ceremony
He is smiling so broadly, you’d never imagine he’d done it before.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
Hogan has a confirmed GoFundMe fundraiser here
gofundme.com
Elijah Hogan's Fight for Education and Stability, organized by Elijah Hogan
Hi, my name is Elijah Hogan. As you may have seen on WDSU, I am a youth … Elijah Hogan needs your support for Elijah Hogan's Fight for Education and Stability
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
Elijah Hogan, a New Orleans teenager who became homeless over a year ago, was named valedictorian of his high school’s graduating class www.cnn.com/2024/06/01/u...
Hogan, who previously lived with his grandmother since he was 11, says he became homeless after the lease on his grandmother’s house expired when the homeowner decided to sell the property.

He and his grandmother were given 30 days to vacate the house, according to Hogan.

“From there, I made the executive decision to live on my own to lighten my grandmother’s burden,” Hogan told CNN.

While his grandmother went to live in a care home for the elderly, Hogan was left without permanent housing.
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Jaana Nystrom @jaanagolf.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
#TEXAS 🤮
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
The Texas Supreme Court considered the stories of women who were denied abortions under wrenching circumstances--who were going into septic shock, or whose babies had fatal diagnoses--and decided that the Texas abortion ban is just fine the way it is.
nytimes.com
Texas Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on Exceptions to Abortion Ban
The court on Friday unanimously reversed a ruling that had expanded the definition of what counts as a medical emergency under the state’s strict abortion ban.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent
huffpost.com
Sen. Joe Manchin Leaves Democratic Party, Registers As Independent
Manchin has long been an outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and an obstacle to many of President Joe Biden’s legislative priorities.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Next week’s cover of The New Yorker just dropped.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is convicted of all 34 counts in his New York hush money trial.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/05/2024
And here's a roundup of some of the organizations targeted by Paxton: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
propublica.org
Ken Paxton Has Used Consumer Protection Law to Target These Organizations
Attorneys general have increasingly used their power to pursue investigations targeting organizations whose work conflicts with their political views. Texas’ Paxton is among the most aggressive.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/05/2024
Texas AG Ken Paxton Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are meant to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.
propublica.org
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets
Ken Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical com...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts responds to Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse, writes that Justice Alito responded regarding recusal questions and that a meeting with Durbin and Whitehouse “would be inadvisable.” Background on Alito’s letter: www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...
In regard to questions concerning any Justice's participation in pending cases, the Members of the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed … individual Justices decide recusal issues. It is my understanding that Justice Alito has sent you a letter addressing this subject.
I must respectfully decline your request for a meeting. As noted ni my letter to Chairman Durbin last April, apart from ceremonial events, only on rare occasions ni our Nation's history has a sitting Chief Justice met with legislators, even in a public setting (such as a Committee hearing) with members of both major political parties present. Separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence counsel against such appearances. Moreover, the format proposed - a meeting with leaders of only one party who have expressed
an interest ni matters currently pending before the Court - simply underscores that participating
in such a meeting would be inadvisable.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice Roberts rejects request by Democratic senators to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Alito flag controversy.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/05/2024
years ago there was a reasonable expectation (if not always realized) that a software/OS update would improve things and now it's more "oh god what did they make worse now"
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Climate action isn’t “radical” or “woke.” Oil and gas companies have spent billions paying conservative politicians to call it that to protect their profits. This is your reminder that lobbying isn’t considered bribery because the politicians taking the money write the laws.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Mercedes hired a squad of anti-union consultants to help defeat an organizing effort in Alabama this month, new Labor Department disclosures show
huffpost.com
Mercedes Hired A Team Of Anti-Union Consultants To Beat Back Organizing Effort
At least 11 “persuaders” helped the automaker defeat the United Auto Workers’ union effort, records show.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 28/05/2024
Imagine the reaction if a presumptive Democratic presidential nominee issued a Memorial Day statement that - ignored fallen troops - condemned perceived foes as “human scum” - characterized the holiday as a day to air his petty grievances It would likely be seen as a scandal, and rightly so.
msnbc.com
Trump recognizes Memorial Day by raging against foes, ‘human scum’
Donald Trump's Memorial Day message ignored American servicemembers who perished altogether. He instead raged against those he sees as "human scum."
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
GOOGLE 2004: Don’t be evil GOOGLE 2024: Don’t be useful
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Top: An IDF soldier sits in a ruined room, surrounded by bookshelves. On one, a fire rages.

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” - Heinrich Heine

Bottom: The conflagration at the Rafah tent camps.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
“Barbecue” is slow cooked meat. An afternoon of grilling hot dogs and hamburgers is a cookout. This is your last warning.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Journalism is printing what Someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations -Genge Orwell
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/05/2024
The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.
washingtonpost.com
Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’
In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
the reporter here runs through it in a quick paragraph, but it seems like Martha stormed into the house, rummaged through their flag collection, stormed out, and ran one up the flagpole, while the entire time Sam Alito just sat waiting in the car
Martha-Ann Alito then got out of the car and shouted in apparent reference to the neighbors: "Ask them what they did!" She said yard signs about the couple had been placed in the neighborhood. After getting back in the car, she exited again and then brought out from their residence a novelty flag, the type that would typically decorate a garden.
She hoisted it up the flagpole. "There! Is that better?" she yelled.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
my first surprise (shock?) when i got into the professional game industry spaces was that the higher up the chain of command you go (leadership) the more rare it was to find people that actually played, made, or really cared about games. still think about it sometimes.
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
The NYPD is legally required to report its clearance rates quarterly. Turns out they haven't published clearance data since 2022. "The NYPD has proven to be a rogue agency that considers itself above all laws, rules, oversight, and public accountability."
hellgatenyc.com
Is the NYPD Solving Crimes? Who Knows—Their Last Published Clearance Data Is From 2022 - Hell Gate
City law requires the NYPD to report its clearance rates quarterly. Under the Adams administration, it just…stopped.
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Law Dork @lawdorknews.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
NEW from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social: The Washington Post’s revelation today that it knew about — and did not report on — the Alito flag story for more than three years raises a lot of questions. Here are a handful of them. www.lawdork.com/p/washington...
lawdork.com
Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years
Saturday's report raises many questions, several relating to the fact that the Post, at least passively, made the decision not to reveal this news many times since 2021.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
NBC News is owned by Comcast, which spent over $787,500 since Jan 6th, 2021 to re-elect seditionists to Congress. Imagine if fascists didn’t have the financial and institutional support of major corporations who see fascism as a means to profits.
open.substack.com
NBC Wants to Make 2024 as Dumb as 2016 With "October Surprise" Trump Story
Hey all, please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work — Ken NBC News has once again opened the door to frenzied election coverage about Donald Trump colluding with a foreign power, wi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging illegal monopoly on live events drives up prices for fans.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Governing board of North Carolina’s 17-school public university system repeals diversity, equity and inclusion policy.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Legislature votes to make abortion pills controlled dangerous substances under first-of-its-kind measure.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
$60 million well spent www.404media.co/google-is-pa...
404media.co
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/05/2024
*JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO SEEK BREAKUP OF LIVE NATION-TICKETMASTER
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home: The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6. and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.
nytimes.com
Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home
The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6. and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Taxpayers pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year for police settlements because of qualified immunity. Last year, NYPD settlements cost taxpayers $115 million. This year, NYC had to cut $58.3 million in funding from public libraries.
open.substack.com
An extraordinarily important legal decision just dropped, and no one is talking about it
On February 13, 2020, Nicholas Robertson was shot in Jackson, Mississippi. Wounded, Robertson knocked on the door of a nearby home. But by the time the police arrived, Robertson was unresponsive and d...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Military contractors donated $3.8 million this year to members of the House committee who oversee Pentagon spending. They're adding 2 provisions to an upcoming bill that lets military contractors price gouge taxpayers. If this isn't corruption, what is?
levernews.com
New Bipartisan Bill Allows Military Contractors To Fleece Taxpayers
After donating millions to key lawmakers, military contractors scored two provisions in an upcoming Pentagon funding bill allowing them to continue overcharging the government.
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